mes
[ˈmes]
The verdict
“mes” is in the everyday core of Spanish, ranked #403 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #403
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cada una de las doce partes, de duración variable según el sistema pero similar al ciclo lunar, en que se divide el año.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmes] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mes” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mes is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmes]. Corpus data places it at rank #403 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mi", "mm", "my", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is mes, spelled M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las doce partes, de duración variable según el sistema pero similar al ciclo lunar, en que se divide el año.
- 2Período entre una fecha de un mes₁ y la equivalente del siguiente.
- 3Más simplemente, período de 30 días, usado para los cálculos económicos y legales.
- 4Salario o pago correspondiente a un mes₃.
- 5Proceso cíclico fisiológico de las mujeres y hembras sexualmente maduras de los primates catarrinos, en que el cuerpo se prepara para un eventual embarazo, produciéndose al final del ciclo un sangrado vaginal fruto de la descamación del endometrio si no se ha producido la implantación de un embrión.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmes] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “mi” - see the side-by-side comparison. mes vs mi
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.